Amissa Miller is an artist, educator, and facilitator with a background in new play dramaturgy, playwriting, and community-based arts education. Recent dramaturgy credits include Christina Anderson's Inked Baby at Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco. Her work as a new play dramaturg also includes developmental workshops and productions at companies including The Huntington Theatre Company, The Women's Project, Ars Nova, and The Movement Theatre Company. As a writer, her work includes the short screenplay The Big Chop (a finalist at the 2014 Black Star Film Festival), as well as the short plays Breaths (which won 2nd place at the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco's Best Plays of 2019 showcase) and Her Own Things (which is published in the Fall 2019 issue of African Voices Magazine)...
Amissa Miller is an artist, educator, and facilitator with a background in new play dramaturgy, playwriting, and community-based arts education. Recent dramaturgy credits include Christina Anderson's Inked Baby at Crowded Fire Theater in San Francisco. Her work as a new play dramaturg also includes developmental workshops and productions at companies including The Huntington Theatre Company, The Women's Project, Ars Nova, and The Movement Theatre Company. As a writer, her work includes the short screenplay The Big Chop (a finalist at the 2014 Black Star Film Festival), as well as the short plays Breaths (which won 2nd place at the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco's Best Plays of 2019 showcase) and Her Own Things (which is published in the Fall 2019 issue of African Voices Magazine). She was recently selected to join the 2020-21 PlayGround Writers Pool. Amissa has co-created art for social change and community building in various youth and community spaces, with organizations including Opening Act New York, The Maysles Institute, Wide Angle Youth Media, and ArtsEmerson. She has taught courses in dramatic literature, applied theatre, and community engagement at New York University, Emerson College, and the University of Texas at Austin. Amissa is currently an assistant professor of Performing Arts at Saint Mary's College of California, where she directed the Fall 2019 production of This is Modern Art by Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval. Amissa holds a BA in Drama from Spelman College and an MFA in Dramaturgy & Script Development from Columbia University.